So down at the family yacht club there is an event held every year around late May to signal the start of season. It's when everyone gets together, the new Commodore says a few words, the flags are raised, and summer is officially welcomed! (There used to be a canon blast too, to conclude the ceremonies, but due to some incidents and recent burns that part of the agenda was replaced by a paper...
This past Sunday was a fundraising event for Wickford Sailing Assocation, the Quonset Point 10 Miler. This was the first year a 5K course was also offered to registrants. There was a great diversity of runners, even one of my former sailing students who is about 9 years old did the 5K! Luckily the rain held off and it was just a chillier overcast day. The race started at 10am, and two runners...
I've been building up my photography equipment and just purchased a new lens, the Nikon 16-35mm f4 VR to be exact! So with the spring heat wave Rhode Island has been experiencing this week, I took it out for its first run to shoot some early morning fog down at the harbor. It was a very quiet morning with some thick fog, but the lens performed spectacularly! Of course I wasn't really putting it...
So the past week there were some forecasts predicting big swell and surf, but as the week went on it turned into smaller surf and more winds. I went out a couple days in a row to check it out anyway and to see if any local surfers would be trying their luck. With my Nikon 70-200mm VRIIin hand (more like a 100-300mm on my crop-factor camera), I went and sat out in some wonderful weather. If there...
